{"id":1302,"date":"2016-10-05T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:48:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:48:55","slug":"2017-2017-lectures-in-criticism-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/2016\/10\/05\/2017-2017-lectures-in-criticism-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"2016-2017 Lectures in Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cTolstoy<\/span>,\u00a0Bresson<\/span>, and the Ground of the Ethical\u201d will be about the relation between the sight of death and ethical understanding in Leo\u00a0Tolstoy<\/span>\u2019s writing and in Robert\u00a0Bresson<\/span>\u2019s film\u00a0L\u2019argent,\u00a0<\/em>a filmic adaptation of\u00a0Tolstoy<\/span>\u2019s late short story “The Forged Coupon.”<\/p>\n

Sharon Cameron, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Johns Hopkins. <\/strong>Sharon Cameron teaches nineteenth-century American literature and twentieth-century American poetry. She is the author of Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre<\/em> (1979); The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne<\/em> (1981); Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau\u2019s Journal<\/em> (1985); Thinking in Henry James<\/em> (1989); Choosing Not Choosing: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Fascicles<\/em> (1995); Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain (2000); and Impersonality: Seven Essays<\/em> (2007). Her current work in progress is called \u201cBut not for Us\u201d: Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, and Robert Bresson<\/em>. At Johns Hopkins Cameron teaches graduate seminars in American poetry; nineteenth-century American authors (Melville, Stowe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, James). She teaches undergraduate courses in these same subjects, and, in addition, a course on Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in translation.<\/p>\n

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Read Tolstoy’s, “The Forged Coupon” here.<\/p>\n

Watch Bresson’s film “L’argent” here<\/a>. (*Hulu subscription required)<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Lectures in Criticism series brings renowned scholars in the humanities to Boston University.\u00a0 It has run continuously since 1983, hosting four external speakers every year in addition to one member of the BU faculty.<\/em><\/p>\n

For more information, visit the Lectures in Criticism website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTolstoy,\u00a0Bresson, and the Ground of the Ethical\u201d will be about the relation between the sight of death and ethical understanding in Leo\u00a0Tolstoy\u2019s writing and in Robert\u00a0Bresson\u2019s film\u00a0L\u2019argent,\u00a0a filmic adaptation of\u00a0Tolstoy\u2019s late short story “The Forged Coupon.” Sharon Cameron, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Johns Hopkins. Sharon Cameron teaches nineteenth-century American literature and twentieth-century […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22861],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16867,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/16867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}